Digital Learning Awards Panel

Matthew Heap

Assistant Professor of Composition and Theory

Matthew Heap, born in 1981, is an internationally performed composer whose music has been featured in several American and English cities and on WQED and WCLV radio. He is also very involved in the theater community as an actor, director, and writer. Matthew received his BFA from Carnegie Mellon University, MMus from the Royal College of Music in London, and Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh. He has studied with Leonardo Balada, Eric Moe, Nancy Galbraith, Mathew Rosenblum, Amy Williams, and Timothy Salter. Matthew is also a member of Alia Musica Pittsburgh, an ensemble dedicated to the performance of new concert music from Pittsburgh composers.

His compositions range dramatically from completely atonal concert music to musical theatre. He believes in using the techniques and materials that best express the idea that he is hoping to represent, whether they be microtones, multiphonics, 12-tone practices, or triadic harmony. He has been a finalist and participant in the Iron Composer Competition and fellow at the June in Buffalo festival, where Allan Kozinn of the New York Times called his music “engagingly noisy…[and] rhythmically sharp-edged.” He has recently written works for the Talea Ensemble (NYC), Duo Scordatura (TX), Contemporary Enclave (Thailand), and TEMPO (LA), and is working on pieces for the Trillium Ensemble and Khasma Piano Duet.

His theory interests center around the analysis of mid- and late-twentieth-century works. Recent projects include a full analysis of Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia with a focus on the narrative function of various elements within the work. Currently, he is researching how theories of perception can be applied to works of current composers such as Matthias Pintscher.

Graham Andrews

Research: I am interested in how volcanic rocks and other ductile rock types flow and are deformed. I combine fieldwork in the US, Mexico, Europe, and Canada with use of drones, GIS, and digital modeling to interpret complexly deformed rocks. Understanding how rocks and lavas flow, combined with experimental research, allows us to predict how long and how far lavas will flow.

Teaching:

GEOL225 Planetary Geology, GEOL286 Introduction to Minerals and Rocks, GEOL386 Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology, GEOL404 Geology Fieldcamp, GEOL444 Field Experiences in Geology, GEOL460 Physical Volcanology

Recent Publications:

Andrews GDM, McGrady AT, Brown SR, Maynard SM (2019) - First description of subglacial megalineations from the late Paleozoic ice age in southern Africa. PLOS One, doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210673.

Schindlbeck JC, Kutterolf S, Straub SM, Andrews GDM, Wang K-L, Mleneck-Vautravers MJ (2018) - One Million Years tephra record at IODP Sites U1436 and U1437: Insights into explosive volcanism from the Japan and Izu arcs. Island Arc, doi:10.1111/iar.12244.

Schmitt AK, Konrad K, Andrews GDM, Horie K, Brown SR, Koppers AA, Pecha M, Busby CJ, Tamura Y (2018) - 40Ar/39Ar Ages and Zircon Petrochronology for Continental Crust-like Rocks in the Izu-Bonin-Marianas Intra-Oceanic Arc. International Geology Review, doi:10.1080/00206814.2017.1363675.

Schindlbeck JC, Kutterolf S, Freundt A, Andrews GDM, Wang K-L, Völker D, Werner R, Frische M, Hoernle K (2016) - Alkalic marine tephra layers at ODP Site 1241: evidence for Plinian eruptions from Cocos Island in a pre-shield stage? Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, v. 328, p. 96-104, doi:10.1016/j.jvolgeores.2016.10.009.

Andrews GDM, Schmitt AK, Busby CJ, Brown SR, Blum P, Harvey JC (2016) - Age and Compositional Data of Zircon from Sepiolite Drilling Mud to Identify Contamination of Ocean Drilling Samples. Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, doi:10.1002/2016GC006397.

Susan Jennings Lantz

Teaching Associate Professor

Susan Jennings Lantz teaches BCOR 199, and 299, is active with the Campus Read, and has lead WVU study abroad groups to Brazil and Bahrain. She has spent two summers as a visiting lecturer at the Tianjin University of Finance of Business and Economics, and she teaches a Gender in Business class for the WVU Honors College.

Before coming to the WVU College of Business and Economics, she spent 22 years working in various areas of the University, including holding positions as the Assistant Director of Student Employment in the Division of Human Resources, the Associate Director of Career Services in Student Affairs, and as the Parent Advocate in the Office of the President.

Her professional interests include gender in business, intergenerational communication in the workplace, and business communication. Her work has appeared in The Bitter Southerner, Human Resources Magazine, Student Affairs Today, and the CUPA HR Electronic Newsletter.

Kimberly Floyd

Dr. Kim Floyd received her bachelor's degree in School Psychology and her master's in Special Education from East Carolina University, going on to also earn a Ph.D. in Special Education at Old Dominion University. While at East Carolina University, she served as a Director of the LEAP program as well as a faculty member before joining West Virginia University in 2009.

Since coming to WVU, Floyd has expanded on her dissertation research on postsecondary assistive technology supports for students with learning disabilities to include implementing assistive and emerging technologies in general and special education classrooms, infusing principles of Universal Design for Learning within instructional design in early childhood settings, and examining the use of virtual learning environments in teacher preparation programs. Her research also focuses on assistive and instructional technology, literacy, inclusive practices, and autism. Additionally, she received outstanding teaching awards in 2011 and 2013, as well as the 2013 Darden Fellow Award from Old Dominion University.

Floyd developed the Collaborative Assistive Technology Education (CATE) Lab in 2010 and currently serves as the lab coordinator in addition to her role as faculty member in the Special Education Department at the West Virginia University College of Education and Human Services. The lab is utilized by multiple disciplines across campus with more than 1,500 assignments completed per semester, exposing many pre-service educators and therapists to assistive and instructional technologies. Additionally, her youngest son was the first student from West Virginia to be awarded the National Yes I Can! Award from the Council for Exceptional Children, which honors children and youth with exceptionalities who shine.